[News] Kill them all: Israel’s extermination of Palestinians in Gaza

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 Kill them all: Israel’s extermination of Palestinians in Gaza

Tel Aviv’s plethora of horrific war-crime strategies – from the Hannibal
Directive to the Dahiyeh Doctrine – were nothing compared to the
existential peril Palestinians face under Israel’s new Generals’ Plan: a
systematic blueprint for ethnic cleansing and Jewish re-settlement of the
strip.

William Van Wagenen <https://thecradle.co/authors/william-van-wagenen>

OCT 24, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/kill-them-all-israels-extermination-of-palestinians-in-gaza
(Photo Credit: The Cradle)

The holocaust engulfing Palestinians in Gaza has reached unimaginable
levels of horror, epitomized by a harrowing video
<https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1846332786015109562> that swept across
social media of 19-year-old Shaaban al-Dalou, burning to death while still
connected to an IV drip. This was no isolated tragedy – it was emblematic
of the escalating genocide.

On 13 October, an Israeli airstrike ignited the makeshift tents sheltering
dozens of displaced Palestinian families in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Amidst the inferno, Dalou’s 17-year-old
brother Mohammed described
<https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/burned-palestinians-relatives-describe-aftermath-israeli-attack-2024-10-16/>
his agony: “I can’t describe the feeling. I saw my brother burning in front
of me, and my mother was burning.”

Mohammed had managed to escape when he heard the strike, but his brother
Shaban and their mother did not. His father
<https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1846583493901566321> saved his
10-year-old brother from the flames, only for the child to succumb to his
burns days later, according to the *New York Times*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/world/middleeast/gaza-escape-burned.html>
.

*No more services in North Gaza*

The horrifying video was followed a week later by photos
<https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1848304597741322286> showing soldiers
expelling Palestinians from half-destroyed residential blocks at gunpoint.

Israeli drone footage published by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan captured
images of Palestinians rounded up
<https://x.com/kann_news/status/1848272901251715523> and forced to walk
south <https://x.com/Bankingcrash/status/1848359155267965341> through
Gaza’s post-apocalyptic landscape without any possessions.

Many Palestinians who refused to obey evacuation orders, often delivered by
announcements made by hovering quadcopter drones
<https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1848591619575972260>, were massacred
<https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1848367723954217460> by Israeli
artillery and airstrikes.

Rescue workers <https://x.com/Hind_Gaza/status/1849173470795489501> and
civilians attempting to save others have been shot at by Israeli forces or
simply rounded up and ‘disappeared.’ There have been reports describing
numerous instances where Palestinians were targeted while trying to help
injured individuals. This has left the people of Gaza without any medical
or emergency services, forcing a complete halt
<https://thecradle.co/articles/gaza-civil-defense-halts-work-in-northern-region-as-israeli-extermination-campaign-worsens>
on health and civil defense services.

Even hospitals were not spared. Critically injured patients and the doctors
treating them faced the same impossible ultimatum
<https://x.com/KhaledYousry22/status/1844040818174132450> – evacuate or die.

After returning home, western doctors who had volunteered in Gaza expressed
their shock at how many children arrived at the hospitals, shot not only
once but twice, directly in the heart and head.

“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by ‘the world’s best snipers.’ And
they’re dead-center shots,” surgeon Mark Perlmutter told
<https://mronline.org/2024/07/25/american-surgeon-who-volunteered-in-gaza-says-idf-snipers-shoot-toddlers/>
CBS News.

Israeli snipers and drones opened fire deliberately not only on children
but on those trying to rescue them.

Palestinian families fleeing were forced to pass through checkpoints where
soldiers separated the men from women and children.

The soldiers then dressed
<https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1849084312571789813> the men in white
jumpsuits <https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1849084312571789813>, bound
their hands, covered their eyes, and loaded
<https://x.com/PeruginiNic/status/1849028490688897087> them into beds of
military trucks to be taken away by night to Israel’s notorious torture
camps.

In detainee camps such as Sde Teiman over the past year, Israeli soldiers
have starved, beaten, and anally raped Palestinian detainees. They shackled
the limbs of detainees so tightly that prison doctors were regularly forced
to amputate limbs.

When these practices came to light, due to leaked videos
<https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1821099572413796386> and testimony
<https://theintercept.com/2024/08/09/israel-prison-sde-teiman-palestinian-abuse-torture/>
from prison guards and released detainees given to the Israeli and US
media, Israeli society quickly rallied around the sadistic soldiers and
announced
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape>
that “everything is legitimate,” including forcing “a stick into a person’s
rectum” when a captive is merely accused of being a Hamas member.

Fearing such a fate and knowing that the Israeli army planned to repeat the
Nakba of 1948 and never allow them to go back to their homes and lands,
many Palestinians in northern Gaza refused to flee.

Those who were forcibly expelled saw images of occupation forces lighting
the remains of their apartment blocks ablaze and proudly posing for selfies
<https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/1848052084907630616> and group photos
<https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/1848052081774449020> posted as
‘trophies of war’ across social media platforms.

*The General’s Plan*

The indescribable horrors underway in Gaza are part of a carefully
calculated Israeli strategy known as the “Generals’ Plan
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-gaza-palestine-what-generals-plan>
.”

This blueprint, which aims to “change the reality” on the ground and
forcibly expel as many as possible of the 300,000 Palestinians remaining in
north Gaza while starving or killing those who resist and remain, was
presented
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-says-hes-weighing-plan-to-lay-siege-to-north-gaza-believes-half-of-hostages-alive/>
by retired Major General Giora Eiland to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s cabinet in September. Eiland’s words were chillingly clear:

We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to
evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in
which every figure is a target and, most importantly, no supplies enter
this territory.

After Netanyahu was briefed on details in a closed-door meeting with the
Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he declared
<https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/22/middleeast/netanyahu-gaza-hamas-expulsions-plan-intl/index.html>
that the plan “makes a lot of sense.”

The effort to initiate the Generals’ Plan began when Israel’s military
spokesman announced “evacuation” orders had been issued for Palestinians in
cities and camps across the North Gaza governorate on 7, 10, and 12 October.

Israel then laid siege to northern Gaza, in particular the Jabalia refugee
camp, in what Amnesty International described
<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/10/israel-opt-israel-must-rescind-latest-evacuation-orders-for-north-gaza-and-allow-immediate-unhindered-humanitarian-access/>
as a “terrifying escalation of the long list of horrors inflicted on people
living in the area north of Wadi Gaza since October 2023.”

In addition to surrounding Jabalia with tanks and pummeling it with
airstrikes, Israeli authorities quickly blocked the entry of all
humanitarian aid, sending the message that Palestinians must either leave
north Gaza or starve.

*Empty threats from Washington*

The use of starvation as a weapon of war proved embarrassing to Netanyahu’s
backers in the White House, who enthusiastically support the genocide but
also wish to avoid backlash from American voters that may cause them to
lose power in the upcoming US presidential election.

On 13 October, the White House issued
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-gives-israel-30-days-to-address-gaza-aid-crisis-threatens-to-curb-weapons-supply/>
a letter publicly demanding Netanyahu increase aid to Gaza, otherwise
Washington’s “continued offensive weapon shipments” to the Israeli army
would be in jeopardy.

The letter, written by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, noted that the
amount of aid delivered had “dropped by more than 50 percent” since the
spring and that the amount delivered in “September was the lowest of any
month during the past year.”

However, Blinken wrote in the letter that Netanyahu had a 30-day window to
comply, deliberately ensuring the Israeli prime minister could ignore it
without consequence.

As the *Times of Israel* observed
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-gives-israel-30-days-to-address-gaza-aid-crisis-threatens-to-curb-weapons-supply/>,
“The letter was sent just weeks before the 5 November US presidential
election.” As a result, “its 13 November deadline would ostensibly mitigate
some of the political fallout, given that US President Joe Biden will be a
lame duck when deciding whether Israel has taken the necessary steps to
ensure compliance” with the US demand.

In other words, no matter how many Palestinians are burned to death, torn
to pieces, or starved, Blinken will continue to play his role in ensuring
that Israel’s supply of bombs continues to flow unimpeded.

Israeli atrocities in north Gaza over the past weeks show the barbarity the
Israeli leadership is capable of when all political and military restraints
are lifted. As *Reuters* understatedly reported on 18 October:

With US elections approaching, Israel is rushing to inflict maximum damage
on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon and seizing the moment to carve
out de facto buffer zones in a bid to create an irreversible reality before
a new president takes office in January.

*The race is on for a Final Solution in Gaza*

Israel is now taking full advantage of an opportunity first created on 7
October last year.

When Hamas launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, the Israeli military used
attack helicopters,
<https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israeli-apache-helicopters-killed-own-soldiers-civilians-on-7-october-report>
 drones <https://thecradle.co/articles-id/14063>, and tanks
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/15975> to not only kill the attacking
Hamas and other Palestinian resistance fighters, but also to burn hundreds
of its own Israeli citizens to death in settlements
<https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/?feed_id=11264&_unique_id=65d3514b9b6fe>
(kibbutzim) and at the Nova rave <https://thecradle.co/articles-id/18526>,
under the Hannibal Directive.

By framing these horrific deaths as Hamas’ doing and claiming it had
suffered its own 9/11, Israel created a “unique and rare opportunity to
evacuate the entire Gaza Strip,” in the words of the Misgav Institute for
National Security & Zionist Strategy.

In a policy paper
<https://theintercept.com/2023/10/25/israel-hamas-opportunity/> issued
shortly after 7 October 2023, the institute wrote, “There is no doubt that
in order for this plan to be enacted, many conditions need to exist in
parallel. At the moment, these conditions exist, and it is unclear when
such an opportunity will arise again, if at all.”

As the absolute carnage in Gaza unfolds, activists and politicians from
Israel’s ruling Likud, Religious Zionism, and Jewish Power parties are
waiting and watching for the mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians to be complete.

*Resettling Gaza*

On the hills overlooking Gaza, Israeli settlers watch
<https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1848487987128189374> the falling bombs,
eagerly awaiting the chance to re-enter the Strip and confiscate the land
and property of the Palestinians being torn apart by US-made missiles and
artillery.

At the same time, lawmakers from Israel’s ruling political parties held a
conference
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-ministers-call-for-new-settlements-in-gaza-at-ultranationalist-conference/>
to plan for Jewish re-settlement
<https://twitter.com/DecampDave/status/1848473273723433421> on the ruins of
what they soon hope will be Gaza’s depopulated cities and refugee camps.

The settler movement’s leader, Daniella Weiss, told
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/settler-leader-daniella-weiss-says-palestinians-will-disappear-gaza>
the crowd that Palestinians in Gaza would soon “disappear.”

We have political support, we have public support, and we have the
experience … We plan to take what we have acquired in the years of settling
Judea and Samaria and to do the same thing here in Gaza.

While Netanyahu continues to deny that the Generals’ Plan is being
implemented, a journalist from his own propaganda outlet, Amit Segal of
Channel 12, was not embarrassed to acknowledge
<https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1848469118363582692> the contrary.

We can keep denying that what’s happening [in north Gaza] is an
implementation of the Generals’ Plan – emptying of the Strip, starving the
terrorists, eliminating them, capturing them. In my opinion, that’s what’s
happening here.

While celebrating the implementation of the Generals’ Plan, Israel’s
political and media class are now awaiting the election
<https://x.com/WVanwagenen/status/1848954730841600212> of Donald Trump as
US president to officially “change the borders of the Gaza Strip” for good.

This is not merely a regional conflict or war but a deliberate attempt at
erasure and ethnic cleansing being carried out in real-time while the
entire world, other than West Asia’s Axis of Resistance, watches on
silently.
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